Example sentences of "[was/were] [v-ing] [adv prt] of the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The mangled remains of a bicycle were sticking out of the windscreen of the lower car . |
| 2 | Here and there lumps of metal were sticking out of the masonry . |
| 3 | She shrugged ruefully , and ten minutes later they were speeding out of the village . |
| 4 | Vangmoor came up on the screen as if they were looking out of the window , but Vangmoor in summer without the wind and with leaves on the trees . |
| 5 | My head popped outside ; five young men were bounding out of the darkness from a car on the road . |
| 6 | It did not so much contest with the establishment as succeed in areas like the mining districts of Cornwall , Kingswood and around Newcastle , where there was no contest in the sprawling villages which were growing out of the reach of a moribund parish structure . |
| 7 | Well-dressed suckers were pouring out of the upstairs theatre , barrelling down the rickety spiral staircase , skidding on the highly polished floor . |
| 8 | After the prayer that ended their silent repast that evening , the cadets were filing out of the refectory to return to their barren cells . |
| 9 | When we were going out of the theatre at the end of the pantomime I saw a little lad crawl under the seat and put it in his pocket . |
| 10 | On the other side of the yard , the first of the City 's homeless were coming out of the union . |
| 11 | They were coming out of the end of the hangar now . |
| 12 | And they used to bring us girls chocolates ; because when they were coming out of the dining-room , anything nice ( they had n't time to take off their gloves ) anything nice that was left in the dishes they used to pinch a piece and eat it . |
| 13 | Jotan and the others were coming out of the audience chamber now . |
| 14 | Then I felt the post begin to slide upwards through my hands , as if more of it were coming out of the ground . |
| 15 | But as we were coming out of the doorway , running across there , sidling round the side was the inspector . |
| 16 | Small flakes of rock were dropping out of the roof around the ring pitons . |
| 17 | And as the 1980s drew to a close , the first locomotives of Class 60 were rolling out of the Brush works at Loughborough , destined to become the standard Railfreight traction unit well into the early years of the twenty-first century . |
| 18 | Moreover , many of the more able pupils were leaking out of the system : even of the most able 10 per cent , two out of five had left before attaining their sixteenth birthday . |
| 19 | Humans were streaming out of the building . |
| 20 | Fires were lighted everywhere against the cold , and bands of ruffians were bursting out of the Panshanger woods carrying ripped-off branches and uprooted saplings . |
| 21 | The prints were n't too bad , considering that I was hanging out of the back window of the plane with just a thin safety belt between me and the farm land 200ft below . |
| 22 | A vast pink tongue was hanging out of the creature 's mouth between a pair of the longest , sharpest teeth imaginable . |
| 23 | The Woman was gazing out of the window , picking at the hem of the tablecloth . |
| 24 | Timothy glanced at the marquis who was gazing out of the window , apparently deaf to the conversation . |
| 25 | Marc was gazing out of the window , but he could n't help overhearing her side of the conversation . |
| 26 | the gigantic military effort was sucking out of the economy , not only surplus products , but the very means of replacing means of production and means of consumption . |
| 27 | For a moment , as the old man was walking out of the door , Conway remembered the face in the book on the plane . |
| 28 | He was walking out of the tower when he glanced up , stopped , froze as he stared at the horror above his head . |
| 29 | I did all the usual stuff — I gave her some money and stuck her on a tube train to a night shelter , but while I was walking out of the tube station , I thought to myself , ‘ you complacent bitch ’ ’ you know . |
| 30 | Then they were formal again , and the company was trooping out of the courtyard and into the cold breeze that billowed down from the distant mountains , their faces set towards the east . |